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I was thinking it didn’t look like a lash egg from the beginning I wonder if she’s been prolapse this whole time but flush had been dried making it look like a Lash egg?

I’m guessing your vets never dealt with chickens before? Most times a swollen face indicates respiratory infection

Is this what people are considering purple egg in the middle? This is from one of my BCM hens her name is Mad C ( named after a European graffiti artist) sometime Mad C’s eggs having an even bloom and it looks like they’re spray-painted lol

I’m getting six lavender Ameraucanas. Actually I’m doing a Chickens swap my friend is buying me their six lavenders and I’m trading her BCM chicks and some OE chicks I’m working on.

I have a BCM hen that lays an egg with the heavy bloom I never thought about it, but it does look purple. I’ll have to post a picture when she lays another one

I ordered chicks from her, but not the langshan. My order should be ready next month, kind of random to just come across her website in this post!

Most cats won’t/can’t kill rats but some will. We had two cats that liveed next-door and they killed everything, rats moles squirrels and rabbits! But I agree with everyone else you’re basically feeding them by leaving food out. If you don’t want rats you have to put away your food. I only feed...

I know the sex link regarding solid male X bard female but there’s other type of sex linked like the sex linked characteristic of the rapid-feathering, or fast-feathering, gene. My chicks are definitely developing feathers at different rates and different shapes, from day one. I guess the thing...

I can sex a chick A lot sooner than six weeks. I guess my only question is about the chipmunk pattern, I’ve never bred any chipmunk chicks before. I know the pattern of a dark chipmunk typically means female, and liter being male, but seeing as these are mixed breed I don’t know if that...

Chick #1 on the left, chick #2 on the right My chicks are a week old today I was very surprised to get some chipmunk chicks from this hatch ( about half our chipmunk and the other half are black) is there anyway they could be sex linked, both parents are black? ( The maternal grandmother is...

How old are your chicks

I wasn’t planning on keeping any of the years but now my curiosity might get the best of me

I was very surprised to find light colored chicks in this hatch, there mother was 1/2 EE and 1/2 BCM ( The mother looks like a black copper Marans hen in coloring) The father is a BCM. All of my chicks from last year that were half EE and half BCM we’re all black( and stayed black ) do you...

I just got my American standard of perfection 44th edition in the mail❤️!!! It appears that Wheaten and white are now recognized varieties

Bird netting it’s the only thing that stops our hawks Eagles and owls